Phoebe (given name)

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Phoebe or Phebe is a female given name (Ancient Greek: Φοίβη), feminine form of the male name Phoebus, meaning "bright and shining" deriving from Greek 'Phoebus' (Φοίβος).

In Greek mythology, Phoibe was a Titan associated with the moon. This was also an epithet of her granddaughter Artemis. A moon of Saturn bears this name in honour of the Titan. This name also appears in the Paul's epistle to the Romans in the New Testament, where it belongs to a female minister in the church at Kechries.

People

Phoebe Brand (1907–2004), American actress who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era

Phoebe Brown (born 1991), English singer

Phoebe Campbell (1847–1872), Canadian murderer

Phoebe Carrai (born 1955), American cellist

Phoebe Cary (1824–1871), American poet

Phoebe Cates (born 1963), American actress

Phoebe Conn (born 1941), American author

Phoebe Couzins (1848–1912), one of the first female lawyers in the U.S. and the first female marshal

Phoebe Di Tommaso (born 1990), Australian figure skater

Phoebe Dollar, American actress

Phoebe Doty, American prostitute

Phoebe Ephron (1914–1971), American playwright and screenwriter

Phoebe Gilman (1940–2002), American children's book author and illustrator

Phoebe Gloeckner (born 1960), American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist

Phoebe Hearst (1842–1919), American philanthropist and feminist

Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poet

Phoebe Hessel (1713–1821), British soldier who disguised herself as a man to serve in army

Phoebe Hirsch (born 1949), former member of SDS and Weatherman

Phoebe Judson (1831–1926), American pioneer and author

Phoebe Knapp (1839–1908), American composer

Phoebe Kreutz, singer-songwriter

Phoebe Legere, multi-format artist

Phoebe Mills (born 1972), American attorney and athlete active in multiple sports

Phoebe Nicholls (born 1957), English film, television, and stage actor

Phoebe Omlie (1902–1975), American aviation pioneer and one of the first female aviators

Phoebe Palmer (1807–1874), evangelist, writer, and promoter of the doctrine of Christian perfection

Phoebe Pember (1823–1913), nurse and medical administrator during the American Civil War

Phoebe Philo (born 1973), English fashion designer and Creative Director of Celine

Phoebe Prince (1994–2010), bullying victim

Phoebe Snetsinger, née Burnett (1931–1999), American birder

Phoebe Snow (1950–2011), musician

Phoebe Strole (born 1983), American actress and singer

Phoebe Taylor (1909–1976), American mystery author

Phoebe Thomas (born 1983), British actress

Phoebe Tonkin (born 1989), Australian actress and model

Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852–1936), Irish artist noted for her role in the Arts and Crafts Movement

Phoebe Holcroft Watson, English tennis player

Biblical and mythological figures

Phoebe (biblical figure), a woman from Cenchrea, mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Romans 16:1

Phoebe (mythology), one of the Titans, grandmother of Apollo and Artemis

Phoebe, one of the Heliades

Phoebe (Leucippid), daughter of Leucippus

Phoebe, an epithet of Artemis

Phoebe, an epithet of Selene

Phoebe, Helen's sister, daughter of Leda

Phoebe, a hamadryad, one of Danaus' many wives or concubines, mother of several of the Danaides

Phoebe, one of the Amazons who fought against Heracles

In books

Phebe, a shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It

Phoebe Somerville Calebow, the protagonist of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' It Had to Be You and main character in the Chicago Stars series

Phoebe Caulfield, the little sister of Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye

the title character of Phoebe Daring, a mystery novel by L. Frank Baum

Phoebe Henry, a child born with down syndrome in The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Phoebe Meryll, the daughter of Sergeant Meryll in the comic opera The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan

Phoebe Pyncheon, a young vivacious female country cousin in The House of the Seven Gables

Phoebe Winterbottom, the best friend of Salmanca Tree Hiddle in Walk Two Moons

Phoebe, a demigod briefly described in The Titan's Curse, the third novel in Rick Riordan's series Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Phoebe, a Sister of the Light in The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind

Phoebe, the 16-year-old pregnant girl and main character of Phoebe by Patricia Dizenzo

In film and television

Phoebe, from the "'Monster Clubhouse'" segment of Sesame Street

Phoebe, one of the three Weird Sisters in the television series Gargoyles, said to represent Grace

Phoebe, in the television series Lovesick

Phoebe, in the animated television series Kid vs. Kat

Phoebe Aldridge, in the British radio soap opera The Archers

Phoebe Banks, in Disney's Enchanted

Phoebe Buffay, a main character in the sitcom Friends, portrayed by Lisa Kudrow

Phoebe Farragut, a character in the animated television series James Bond Jr.

Phoebe Figalilly, the mystical governess and nanny in the television series Nanny and the Professor

Phoebe Forrester, daughter of Ridge and Taylor, in the television series the Bold and the Beautiful

Phoebe Gottlieb (née Bright), a teenager in the soap opera Neighbours

Phoebe Halliwell, a witch, one of the Power of Three, on the television drama series Charmed, portrayed by Alyssa Milano

Phoebe Heyerdahl, one of the main characters of the television series Hey Arnold!

Phoebe Lichten, the main character of the film Phoebe in Wonderland

Phoebe McQueen, in the British soap opera Hollyoaks

Phoebe Nicholson, in the Australian soap opera Home and Away

Phoebe North, in the 2005 remake of Yours, Mine and Ours

Phoebe O'Hara, a fictional FBI agent in Kindergarten Cop, portrayed by Pamela Reed

Phoebe Sparrow, née Bamford, Gary Sparrow's girlfriend and later wife in the television series Goodnight Sweetheart

Phoebe Terese, one of the girls in Ms. Frizzle's class on the television series The Magic School Bus

Phoebe Thunderman, one of the title characters of Nickelodeon's comedy series The Thundermans

Phoebe, main character in American Ultra, portrayed by Kristen Stewart

In games

Phoebe, a character from Square's Final Fantasy Mystic Quest video game

Phoebe (Pokémon), a member of the Hoenn Elite Four from Pokémon

Phoebe Elizabeth Audelia Hemsworth IV, a character from Gearbox's [Battleborn (video game)|Battleborn]]

Toys

Phoebe, a doll in the Groovy Girls line by Manhattan Toy

Phoebe, a Bratz character

Other

Phoebe Howell, in the comic strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Phoebe Snow (character), a woman who served as the main character of a turn-of-the-century ad campaign for the Lackawanna Railroad in Pennsylvania

References

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